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| DISPUTES AFTER PRIME MINISTER'S NOMINATION 16/10/2009 |
| (2009-10-16) |
| Last updated: 2009-10-19 13:29 EET |
Entitled by Constitution to nominate the prime minister, Romania’s President Traian Basescu Thursday entrusted Lucian Croitoru, adviser to the National Bank governor, with the task of forming a new government. A former representative of Romania at the IMF and close to the Liberal Democrats, although not enrolled to their party, Croitoru has all the assets targeted by President Basescu in a prime minister for a time of severe economic crisis, doubled by the tough political disputes that preceded next month's presidential election. Traian Basescu:
“My choice of Mr. Croitoru was triggered by the fact that we need a prime minister who is competent in matters of national and global-level macro-economics. He also meets the desire expressed by some political parties, of having a prime minister without political affiliations.”
Once nominated, Croitoru promises that the government he will try to form will be...
“will be a political government, in the sense that it will need the support of political parties. And this support will be provided through technocrats. In other words, parties will nominate good professionals, whom I can grow to trust. So next week I will take care of these two things: drawing up an economic plan able to gain the confidence of Parliament, and holding these consultations with political parties.”
Nonetheless, most political analysts warn that this is work in vain, and that a future Croitoru cabinet will never be confirmed by Parliament. Except for the Liberal Democrats, who have welcomed the presidential proposal with their well-known submissiveness, all other parties continue to support the option of a non-political government able to guarantee the neutrality of public administration until the election. Joining efforts in a new majority, accounting for 65% of the seats in Parliament, the Social Democratic Party, National Liberal Party and Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania have reiterated support for a prospective government headed by the mayor of Sibiu, the ethnic German Klaus Johannis. Social Democratic leader Mircea Geoana says:
“Mr. Traian Basescu carries on and deepens the political crisis. He deliberately nominates a candidate that he knows has no support in Parliament. We are therefore facing political and constitutional blackmail, and what Mr. Basescu really wants is to keep the interim Boc cabinet in place until the presidential election, in order to sway its results.”
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